France Yellow Vests Week 195: Heat, Drought, Inflation, Protest Continues

Drought a big concern of France's government at the end of the week Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne activating an inter-ministerial crisis group.

As the very hot summer continues with temperatures in many parts of France regularly exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit more than 100 communities said to be without water supplies.

And this 59 minute video gives you an inside look at the protest on the streets of Paris today you will see the distribution of fruit, magicians and comics in the midst of today's march on the streets...

It began when President Emmanuel wanted to tax fuel to “save the planet” back in 2019.

A massive revolt with hundreds of thousands in the streets every Saturday then some black hooded anarchists just happened to show up.

Then there were incidents like defacing of the Arc d’ Triomphe and the vandalizing of restaurants on the Champs Elysees.

And of course the “Anti-Semitic” memes were discovered by the mainstream media in the protests.

The protests got some fuel from opposition to the vaccine passports in the last year but now the passports are gone.

The Yellow Vests were seen as a threat to the state and the state did the work it does every time ala Janaury 6th to knock these protests down to virtually nothing.

when will the public wake up?

7 Aug: Daily Mail: How Britain’s farms are being devastated by corporate giants covering up their carbon footprint - by planting millions of trees on fields grazed by sheep for centuries
By HARRIET DENNYS
Sadly, there has been no happy ending for Ian, Rhiannon and their three small children. Their attempt to buy 260 acres at Frongoch Farm came to nothing when they were outbid, not by fellow farmers, but by a giant private equity firm based 160 miles away in the City of London.

A firm that intends to cover the farm with nothing more edible than trees.

Up and down Britain, the price of agricultural land is soaring as financiers and corporations attempt to ‘offset’ their carbon emissions by snapping up farmland and covering it with forest to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

From Yorkshire to Shropshire, Somerset and Devon, farmers and land agents report that farm after farm has been converted to woodland at the behest of major companies, charities, wealthy landowners and celebrities.
This is on top of other environmental projects such as ‘rewilding’, which are also eating into Britain’s capacity to grow food.

Heathrow Airport, Marks & Spencer, lingerie brand Ann Summers, funeral provider Dignitas and High Street bank TSB have all backed tree-planting schemes to compensate for the pollution they cause. Music label Universal – home to Rod Stewart and The Rolling Stones – is planting trees on sheep pasture in Cumbria...

The backlash, led by locals, farmers and MPs, has so far been fiercest in Wales and Scotland...

The carbon offsetting boom has been boosted not just by profits from selling tractor-loads of timber but by a new and highly lucrative market in trading the ‘carbon credits’ the trees generate...

The taxpayer provides further incentives, with landowners handed thousands of pounds in government subsidy schemes to plant trees instead of growing food...

George Dunn, of the Tenant Farmers Association, is involved in cases in Yorkshire, Shropshire and East Sussex. In all three counties, he says, attempts are being made to cancel tenancies and take the land back for tree planting or for green initiatives such as solar panels and windfarms. Rewilding is another problem, he says...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11087995/How-Britains-farms-devastated-corporate-giants.html

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